civil rights

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

May 17, 1954

the Supreme Court rules unanimously against school segregation

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus to a white person

Montgomery bus boycot

Dec 5, 1955

followowing Rosa Park, the Montgomery bus Boycott was when African Americans refused to use the Mongtgomery buses to protest segregated seats

voting rights

Apr 7, 1956

After the protest walk from selma to montgomery, the voting rights act is passed allowing African Americans to vote without having any disturbances

sit in movement

Sep 12, 1960

protest by African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch in Greensboro, started the sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout,

Fredom Riders

May 4, 1961

civil rights workers bot African Amercian and white rode buses across country testing or proving the new desegregation law

I Have a Dream speech

May 5, 1963

in Washington D.C. martin luther king jr gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the largest civil right demonstration ever.

Civil Rights Act

Mar 23, 1964

President johnson signs the civil rights act, which gives thefederal government power to prosectue discrimination

nobel peace prize

Nov 20, 1964

Martin Luther King jr. is the youngest man to be awarded with the nobel peace prize

Assasination of MLK

Apr 4, 1968

at age 39, Marting Luther King jr. is assasinated standing on the balcony of his hotel room.